Improvement in washing-machines



s. WRIGHT. v

Improvement in Washing-Machines. 780. Patented Aug.2o,1872.

4UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WRIGHT, OF SAVANNAH, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification` forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,780, dated August 20, 1872; antedated August 19, 1.872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WRIGHT, of Savannah, in the county of Andrew and State of Missouri, have invented a'new and valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear,

' chine having a hollow perforated and tluted cylinder to contain the clothes, which are washed by the rotation of it. My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of double curved buckets applied to the outside of a corrugated cylinder for the purpose of vforcing the water through the perforations in the wall thereof, between the corrugations.

Referring to the drawing, A represents a water-tank, Within which the washing-cylinder rotates. The cylinderspindles c c are flanged at a near their ends, and have their bearings in the flanged boxesa, which are secured to the sidesof the tank, as shown. These flanges and anged bearings prevent the lateral movement or jumping ofthe cylinder. The dan ged boxes are open at the top to allow of the ready insertion and removal of the cylinder. The cylinder is loperated by means of the gearwheels b b1. The shaft of b has a crank-arm, b2. The wheel b1 is secured to a shaft, b3, which passes through a collar or tube, c, attached to the tank, thence into the tubular spindle c. The shaft and spindle are correspondingly shouldered so that they will turn together.

- To remove the cylinder the shaft must be taken out of the tubular spindle. d represents a bracket supporting theshaft of the wheel b. The inner endA of the shaft b3 is threaded and passes through the head of the cylinder, so that a nut may be put on to hold it in place.

The cylinder is marked E. The'body thereof is corrugated or fluted. The ridges between the corrugations are perforated to admit water to the clothes. F represents a hinged door, to be opened for. placing in and taking out the clothes. G represents buckets secured to the outside of the cylinder at proper intervals. These buckets are arranged in pairs, their mouths facing in opposite directions, so as to take up water when the cylinder is turned either way. The form of the buckets is concavo-convex, but may be otherwise. The most economical way of constructing the buckets is to press them in pairs from sheets of metal to the form clearly shown in the drawing. After pressing them to the desired'form the buckets are to be provided with ends and soldered or otherwise fastened to the cylinder. ets are useful for the purposerof forcing water into the cylinder, and as they will pourpthe water from above so as to cause it to beat the clothes they are of assistance in thecleaning of them.

It will be observed that the buckets are so placed in relation to the corrugations ofthe cylinder that the latter are made to retain water, thereby increasing the capacity of the buckets and enabling them to carry up a quantity of water as the cylinder revolves, said water to be afterward thrown into the cylinder upon the goods.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' The washing-machine, provided with a trans` versely-corrugated cylinder, E, having perforations through its wall between the corrugations, and the double-curved water-guides G, all constructed and arranged substantially as specied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

A. G. CLARKE, EDWARD T. DUvALL.

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